Nigerian Woman who ate enough cocaine to kill 980 people

Luckily each of the 83 capsules drug runner swallowed remained intact, now being induced out by laxatives

Luckily each of the 83 capsules drug runner swallowed remained intact, now being induced out by laxatives

First the enema, then the bananas. Doctors at JJ Hospital have an important, unenviable task ahead of them.

They have to first force-feed bananas to a Nigerian drug runner to ensure the laxative makes her eject the contents of her stomach into a bedpan.
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Then, they need to scour through the poop to find 26 capsules containing cocaine.

The 26 capsules are a remainder. When she was detained at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on September 1 on suspicion of carrying drugs and then X-rayed, 83 capsules showed up in her stomach a total of 980 gm of cocaine.

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For four days the woman refused to use the loo and finally doctors forcibly gave her an enema. "She refused to eat or use the toilet and flush out the capsules," said a senior doctor from JJ Hospital.

The remains of the day gave the cops 57 capsules. But since then, she has refused to eat, which means an enema would not work.

This morning, the doctors and police will examine the results of the banana laxative and hope she ejects the remaining 26 capsules.

Said Baljeet Singh Nunwal, additional commissioner, Air Intelligence Unit, "She is still under medical observation and we are waiting for the reports and the rest of the capsules."
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Sources said the woman was extremely lucky that none of the capsules dissolved inside her body, which would have meant a lethal overdose.

The Arrest

The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU), on the basis of a tip-off from the Narcotics Control Bureau arrested the woman on September 1, after she landed in Mumbai by an Emirates flight.
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She was then taken to JJ Hospital where an X-ray revealed capsules in her stomach.
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She was carrying the drugs from Sao Paulo in Brazil via Dubai and has now been arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985.

980 gm
The quantity of cocaine in the capsules, enough to give 8,000 people a high

10 mg
The quantity of cocaine snorted in a line

1 gm
The quantity of cocaine that causes a fatal overdose

2 gm
A person caught with cocaine more than this can be arrested under the NDPS Act and jailed for six months to 20 years